Originally posted by: TonyPearson

A lot was announced this week, so I decided to break it up into several separate posts. This is part 3 in my 3-part series, focusing on our Tivoli Storage products. To read the rest of the series, see:

• [Part 1-Enterprise Systems: DS8000, TS7700 and XIV]
• [Part 2-Tape and Storage Hypervisor: Storwize V7000 Unified, LTO-6 and SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center]

Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager v3.2

The latest release of FlashCopy Manager now supports NetApp and IBM N series storage devices. This provides application-aware snapshots, coordinated with applications like SAP, DB2 and Oracle.

FlashCopy Manager now integrates with Metro and Global Mirror capabilities, so that application-consistent copies are available at remote sites for disaster recovery, or to off-load the FlashCopy destination copy from disk to Tivoli Storage Manager storage pools.

Tivoli Storage Manager v6.4

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is part of IBM's Unifed Recovery Management. Here are some highlights:

• Enhanced Reporting. Cognos reporting to monitor backup and archive environments.
  
  
• TSM for ERP. I remember when these were called "Tivoli Data Protection" modules. We still refer to them as "TDPs". The TSM for ERP provides backup capability for SAP environments, and this latest release adds support for in-memory SAP HANA databases.
  
  
• TSM for Virtualization Environments IBM TSM is famous for its patented "Progressive Incremental Backup" which is far more efficient than full+incrementals or full+differentials. IBM now extends this method to VM images. With people consolidating more and more VMs onto fewer host servers, TSM-VE now offers multiple backup streams in parallel. TSM-VE can now take application-aware backups of Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and Active Directory running in VMs. TSM-VE will also support vApp and VM templates. If it takes you [a day and a half to build a VMware template], you would want to make sure all that work was backed up, right?
  
  
• Enhanced Security. Complex password support and improved user authentication and management by integration with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

For more on this, read the [TSM v6.4 Announcement Letter]

To learn more about all of the announcements this week, see the [Storage Announcement Page].

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